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040 _aDLC
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_2lcmd
100 1 _aWilkes, Charles,
_d1798-1877.
245 0 0 _aCharles Wilkes papers,
_f1607-1959
_g(bulk 1841-1865).
300 _a6,500
_fitems.
300 _a45
_fcontainers plus
_a2
_foversize plus
_a1
_fvault container.
300 _a26
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a18
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, letterbooks, journals and diaries, autobiography, scientific tracts and notes detailing weather and tidal observations, legal and financial papers, genealogical charts, printed material, and other papers. Subjects include Wilkes's command of an expedition (1838-1842) to the Antarctic, islands in the Pacific, and the northwest coast of the U.S.; his work in Washington, D.C., preparing and publishing (1843-1863) information collected by the expedition; his capture of J.M. Mason and John Slidell in the Trent affair (1861); and his command of the James River Flotilla and the West India Squadron during the Civil War. Subjects include efforts to capture Confederate destroyers, commerce in the North, and dissatisfaction with American leadership during the Civil War; and an outbreak of cholera in Germany in 1873. Also includes letterbooks (1817-1841) of William Compton Bolton. Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, James Dwight Dana, Joseph Drayton, Asa Gray, George Brinton McClellan, Fred D. Stuart, and Gideon Welles.
520 8 _aFamily papers include correspondence of Charles Wilkes, his children John, Jane, and Eliza, and his wives Jane Renwick Wilkes and Mary Lynch Bolton Wilkes; genealogies; and marriage and building contracts, leases, inventories, promissory notes, trust agreements, and debt records dating from the seventeenth century concerning the family in England and America.
530 _aMicrofilm edition of containers 1-31 available,
_dno. 16,501.
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service.
545 0 _aNaval officer and explorer.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005
600 1 0 _aAgassiz, Louis,
_d1807-1873
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBolton, William Compton,
_d-1849
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDana, James Dwight,
_d1813-1895
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDrayton, Joseph
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGray, Asa,
_d1810-1888
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMason, J. M.
_q(James Murray),
_d1798-1871.
600 1 0 _aMcClellan, George Brinton,
_d1826-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSlidell, John,
_d1793-1871.
600 1 0 _aStuart, Fred D.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWelles, Gideon,
_d1802-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilkes, Eliza
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilkes, Jane
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilkes, Jane Renwick,
_d-1843
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilkes, John,
_d1827-1908
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilkes, Mary Lynch Bolton
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aWilkes family.
610 1 0 _aConfederate States of America.
_bNavy.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy.
_bJames River Flotilla.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy.
_bPotomac Flotilla.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy.
_bWest India Squadron.
611 2 0 _aUnited States Exploring Expedition
_d(1838-1842)
650 0 _aAstronomy.
650 0 _aCholera
_zGermany.
650 0 _aMaps.
650 0 _aMeteorology
_xObservations.
650 0 _aScientific expeditions
_zAntarctica.
650 0 _aScientific expeditions
_zHawaii.
650 0 _aScientific expeditions
_zOceania.
650 0 _aTides.
650 0 _aTrent Affair, 1861.
651 0 _aAntarctica
_xDiscovery and exploration.
651 0 _aHawaii
_xDiscovery and exploration.
651 0 _aOceania
_xDiscovery and exploration.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xCommerce.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xNaval operations.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1861-1865.
656 7 _aExplorers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aNaval officers.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005.3
999 _c39368
_d39368